Hi all,
Please help me decide which would be the best option for a new NAS?
I preordered the N5 Pro and now I need to fill it. My budget is 1000EUR for 5x 8TB drives.
I have experience with a pair of Ironwolf 6TB in Raid 1 on a synology DS719+. No problems with them for the past 5 years. Shall I consider the other options?
Seagate Exos 7E10 -8TB - ST8000NM017B (170EUR)
Seagate IronWolf PRO 8TB - ST8000NT001 (200EUR)
Seagate IronWolf 8TB - ST8000VN004 (180EUR)
TBH on paper the 7E10 looks like a no brainer the cheapest and enterprise grade... sounds too good to be true, why is that?
Also Raidz1 or Raidz2 with 5 drives? I want to be able to use the NAS as a server aswell and I will have 1TB NVMe for cache and I will use the Synology as a backup for important files. Just to give you a little bit of context when considering RW speeds and fault tolerance. I am tempted with Raidz1, but AI insists on Raidz2...
Please share your wisdom!